2024
Summer
reading list
pre-First Grade Students
Recommended and compiled by Reading Teachers
From the
Baldwin Union Free School District
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Beginning Chapter Books
The One in the Middle is the
Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume
The Golly Sisters Books
by Betsy Byars
Arthur's Camp Out
by Marc Brown
Danny and the Dinosaur
by Syd Hoff
Mr. Putter and Tabby
by Cynthia Rylant
Mouse Tales
by Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad (Series)
by Arnold Lobel
The Grandma Mix-Up
by Emily McCully
Oliver Pig Books
by Jean Van Leeuwen
Nate the Great (Series)
by Marjorie Sharmat
Tales of Amanda Pig
by Jean Van Leeuwen
Three by the Sea
by Edward Marshall
The Outside Dog
by Charlotte Pomerantz
Poppleton Series
by Cynthia Rylant
Nursery/Folk and Fairy Tales
Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose
by Tomie dePaola
The Gingerbread Boy
by Paul Galdone
Henny Penny
by Paul Galdone
The Three Little Kittens
by Paul Galdone
Hansel and Gretel
by James Marshall
Poetry
Jamal's Busy Day
by Wade Hudson
ABC Books
1,2,3 to the Zoo
by Eric Carle
ABC I Like Me!
By Nancy Carlson
Matthew A.B.C.
by Peter Catalanotto
The ABC Mystery
by Doug Cushman
Ape in a Cape
by Fritz Eichenberg
Dr. Seuss' ABC
by Theodore Geisel
Antics
by Cathi Hepworth
Alison's Zinnia
by Anita Lobel
Chicka Chick Boom Boom
by Bill Martin
Picture Books
Book! Book! Book!
by Deborah Bruss
Picture Book Series
by Bruce Degen
Color Zoo
by Lois Ehlert
Olivia!
by Ian Falconer
Count
by Denise Fleming
The Trek
by Ann Jonas
Koala Lou
by Mem Fox
Can I Keep HIm?
by Steven Kellogg
Mystery on the Docks
by Thacher Hurd
Ms. MacDonald Has a Class
by Jan Ormerod
One Hundred Hungry Ants
by Elinor Pinczes
Office Buckle and Gloria
by Peggy Rathmann
Leo the Late Bloomer
by Robert Kraus
Swimmy
by Leo Lionni
Brown Bear, Brown Bear,
What Do You See?
by Bill Martin
The Paper Boy
by Dav Pilkey
Easy Readers
Fox at School
by Edward Marshall
No More Monsters for Me
by Peggy Parish
Morris and Boris at the Circus
Bernard Wiseman
Thomas and Percy and the Dragon
by Christopher Awdry
The Case of the Scaredy Cats
by Crosby Bonsall
D.W. The Picky Eater
by Marc Brown
Biscuit (Series)
by Alyssa Capucilli
Arnie and the New Kid
by Nancy Carlson
Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza
by Marjorie Eberts
Fiction
The Reluctant Dragon
by Kenneth Grahame
Magic Tree House Series
by Mary Pope Osborne
Cam Jansen Series
by David A. Adler
A Case for Jenny Archer
by Ellen Conford
Kids of Polk Street School
Series
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Series Books
Snail and Worm
by Tina Kugler
Puppy Mudge
by Cynthia Rylant
Brownie and Pearl
by Cynthia Rylant
Max and Zoe
by Shelley Swanson Sateren
Nonfiction
Martin's Big Words
by Rappaport
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
by Relf
All Eyes on the Pond
by Michael J. Rosen
Carrots
by Saunders-Smith
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm
by White
Chameleon, Chameleon
by Cowley
The Cloud Book
by Tomie dePaola
Solid, Liquid, and Gases
by Garrett
Wild Horse Winter
by Tetsuya Honda
Animal Babies
by Hamsa
The Usborne Big Book of
Big Machines by Minna Lacey
Please use this list only as a guide. These books have been chosen for their quality, their appeal to children, and their availability at the Baldwin Public Library. Additional nonfiction books have been added in order to align texts to NYS Common Core Learning Standards. You are encouraged to read other titles by these authors. If a particular title is not available, a librarian can assist you in selecting another title on the same topic, by the same author, or in the same genre. The public library also updates its own summer reading lists each year.
